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Beck on Gore's statement to kids that they know "some things" their parents don't: "That's evil"

March 05, 2010 5:35 pm ET

From the March 5 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:

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    • Author by marco21 (March 05, 2010 5:38 pm ET)
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      LOL. The hell is he talking about?
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      • Author by juliajayne1 (March 05, 2010 5:41 pm ET)
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        How are we supposed to know that? HE doesn't even know what in his future habitat (Hell) he's talking about.
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    • Author by shaggles (March 05, 2010 5:40 pm ET)
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      Good lord. Everyone knows things their parents don't know. Is that news to Beck? Or is it just telling the kids they know somethings their parents don't know thta's evil? Does Beck have kids? If he does I guarantee they think they know everything and that he's an idiot. All kids think that.
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      • Author by marco21 (March 05, 2010 5:43 pm ET)
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        I love how after he stops playing his short, short sound bite of Gore (without context)he begins to question "Like what? They know what?"

        I am sure if he kept playing the clip, he;d get an answer, but that owuld destroy his narrative.
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        • Author by GreatMonkMiroku (March 05, 2010 7:37 pm ET)
             
          That would destroy his credibility...and sanity...however much is there to begin with.
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        • Author by GreatMonkMiroku (March 05, 2010 7:37 pm ET)
             
          That would destroy his credibility...and sanity...however much is there to begin with.
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    • Author by Reinhard (March 05, 2010 5:40 pm ET)
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      Like Ozzy says - he's going off the rails of the crazy train.

      Glenn, why do you hate America?
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    • Author by MidnightWriter (March 05, 2010 5:43 pm ET)
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      I suspect Beck still owns a Betamax with a clock that's blinking "12:00."
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    • Author by gg (March 05, 2010 5:47 pm ET)
         
      In Beck's case let's hope to God isn't true.
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      • Author by gg (March 05, 2010 6:48 pm ET)
           
        Meant to say is true, as far as kid's knowing things their parents don't.
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    • Author by bintx (March 05, 2010 5:47 pm ET)
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      I guarandangteeyou that Beck's children not a helluva lot more than he does. My children know things that I don't know . . . as a PARENT, I encouraged them to know more than I know. It's called LEARNING and EDUCATION. No wonder Beck is such an uneducated dolt . . . apparently nobody cared enough to encourage him to learn.
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      • Author by bintx (March 05, 2010 5:49 pm ET)
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        I guarandangteeyou that Beck's children not a helluva lot more than he does.


        I guarandangeeyou that Beck's children KNOW a helluva lot more.
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      • Author by shaggles (March 05, 2010 5:51 pm ET)
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        That may be true in Beck's case but Gore didn't say the kids knew more than their parents. He only said they knew somethings their parents don't know. I guess for someone who aspires to be King of the Universe that's a tought pill to swallow.
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        • Author by bintx (March 05, 2010 6:01 pm ET)
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          That's the same thing. If someone knows something I don't know, they know more. As I said, my kids know things I don't know. A good parent welcomes and encourages this sort of thing. It's called LEARNING. I don't think Beck had that sort of encouragement. That's why he is so terrified of real education. He knows how inadequate he is.
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          • Author by christopher howard (March 05, 2010 6:09 pm ET)
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            I hear babies cry, I watch them grow
            They'll learn much more than I'll never know
            And I think to myself what a wonderful world

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5IIXeR5OUI

            That Louis Armstrong was evil too.

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            • Author by political_left-religious_right (March 05, 2010 8:35 pm ET)
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              Well put! When my 12-year-old shows that she knows something that I don't (which is often enough), I don't think she's evil, I think she's bright, and I'm a very proud daddy.
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          • Author by shaggles (March 05, 2010 6:10 pm ET)
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            I don't think it's the same thing because you know things your kids don't know too. You can't both know more. But that just semantics. There's no point arguing since we basically agree.

            I agree that a good parent should encourage learning and should not be afraid of learning something from their kids. You're probably right about Beck's own upbringing too.
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      • Author by williamsn517 (March 05, 2010 8:38 pm ET)
           
        Very good point, bintx. I knew things in high school and my early years of college that my parents didn't know...algebra lol. I would be taking these math courses and would sometimes ask my parents for help with an algebra question and they'd be like "don't ask me, I barely passed basic math".
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        • Author by aj.physics (March 05, 2010 10:49 pm ET)
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          I wonder if Beck then is more excited when his kids grades are worse then what his were because it means he still knows more than them. So if Beck failed history, then do his kids have to as well? Man I would love to be a fly on the wall during their parent teacher conferences.
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    • Author by progressivevoicedaily (March 05, 2010 5:48 pm ET)
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      I can't wait for the day this guy goes away. Although it really does work in the progressive movement's favor. Every breakthrough this country has made, whether it's civil rights, women's rights, gay rights...etc has been initiated and carried through by PROGRESSIVES. Whether their Republicans or Democrats it really didn't matter. The very definition should tell Beck he's barking up the wrong tree.
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    • Author by blueline99 (March 05, 2010 5:50 pm ET)
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      That's just a whole of crazy going on here...

      Seriously, it's like 10 pounds of crazy in a 5 pound bag.
      He fell out of the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down
      He's not on the crazy bus, he's the bus driver giving a tour of crazy town.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (March 05, 2010 5:56 pm ET)
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      No, it isn't evil that children might know things their parents don't. I had a teacher who made me question the values I was taught at home. My mother was a big fan of Archie Bunker, seeing him as a spokesman for Everyman. My mother hated that teacher and blamed him for everything I did that she didn't like. Now, should I have continued to listen to my parents? She also wanted me to drop out of college and get a real job, after all, she didn't know anybody who went to college and they turned out okay. Glennie, you indoctrinate your audience every day with hate and fear, misinformation, lies, and smears. Why is what you are doing okay, but the work of teachers like my teacher, evil?
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    • Author by Dhalgren (March 05, 2010 6:07 pm ET)
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      Where did Mr. Gore tell the children 'not to listen' to their parents?
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      • Author by aj.physics (March 05, 2010 10:57 pm ET)
           
        Because if you know more then someone (which we've already defined as knowing something they don't know) why would you listen to them... So logically if would follow that since Beck knows that he knows more about our founding fathers, the original tea party, economics, business, education, health care, well basically everything, thus he doesn't have to listen to anyone. Man I hope I can know more than Beck one day so that I don't have to listen to him (reverse logic, if I know less then some one, I am forced to listen to them)... Oh wait that wasn't logical, that was, well I'm not sure what that was,
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    • Author by worrierking (March 05, 2010 6:15 pm ET)
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      Isn't that what we've always called progress?

      Don't we want our kids to know more than we do?

      This guy becomes more detached from reality every day.
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      • Author by raddave43 (March 05, 2010 6:24 pm ET)
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        No, that's progress and progress equals progressive.
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      • Author by juliajayne1 (March 05, 2010 6:25 pm ET)
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        And good parents also want their kids to earn more and have a generally better life than they had too. Gasp! Might go to grandkids as well......slippery slope for sure!
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        • Author by aj.physics (March 05, 2010 11:03 pm ET)
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          See if every generation gets smarter, then it wont be long before you look stupid, but what Beck needs to do is look backwards. Just think, if he is smarter than his parents, and his parents were smarter then their parent ect, He looks like a genius. That means that we all must be smarter then the founding fathers (if only because we're farther ahead in the future by say something like 10 generations) so the fact that Beck compares him self and his intelligence to theirs, he must be about 200 years dumber then the rest of us... Oh wait that doesn't work out well for him either. Okay I tried I give up, the tea baggers logic was too much for me.
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          • Author by John Paradox (March 05, 2010 11:28 pm ET)
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            If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. ~ Isaac Newton on his intellectual debt to those who preceded him.
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    • Author by raddave43 (March 05, 2010 6:34 pm ET)
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      What I find funny is the quote that he had from Gore said that the children would know more than older people, and made no mention of parents. But Glenn "thinks" that Gore said the children know more than their parents.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (March 05, 2010 7:11 pm ET)
         
      Beck on Gore's statement to kids that they know "some things" their parents don't: "That's evil"

      Slim pickings huh Becky? LOL!
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    • Author by Eno (March 05, 2010 7:44 pm ET)
         
      This reminds me of those hidden messages that people claim you can hear in the lyrics of certain songs when you play them backwards: because they often tell you what to listen out for in the first place, it tricks your brain into thinking that you genuinely hear the message clear as day when really, if you hadn't had the idea planted in your head in the first place, it would've been nearly inaudible.

      That's what Beck's doing here. He's telling you beforehand what (he thinks) is being said and that makes people actually believe that's what the quote means.
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